Mattie Storin

Matilda "Mattie" Storin (died 1991) was a British journalist who worked for The Chronicle. She was Conservative Party politician Francis Urquhart's lover, as well as his ally in the press. She died of an apparent suicide in 1991.

Biography
Matilda Storin was a journalist who was employed by The Chronicle, a right-wing newspaper owned by Benjamin Landless and managed by Greville Preston. She did not get on well with her bosses, and her career only took off in 1990, when she first met Conservative Party politician Francis Urquhart. She interviewed Urquhart at his home, seeking his input on Prime Minister Henry Collingridge's rejection of his cabinet; Urquhart told her that he needed a friend in the media, and he would often act as an anonymous source to her stories. However, he was secretly using her to discredit and eliminate his rivals within the Conservative Party, and her stories were influential in Collingridge's downfall.

Storin later caught on, as, during the leadership election following Collingridge's election, she found contradictions in the inside trading accusations against Collingridge and his brother, and she began to dig deeper into Urquhart's schemes. Urquhart sent Roger O'Neill to vandalize her car and apartment as a show of intimidation, and he later had the unstable O'Neill poisoned. Storin eventually deduced that Urquhart was responsible for O'Neill's death and was behind the elimination of the other Conservative leaders. She later confronted him on the roof garden of the House of Commons, where he confessed to these allegations. She told Urquhart that he could trust her, but he proceeded to throw her off the roof to her death, making it look like a suicide. However, her recordings of her conversations with Urquhart were later stolen.